Fremantle Launches Sports Unit

Fremantle Launches Sports Unit

[ad_1] Fremantle has launched a sports hub and signed Banijay’s ex-commercial boss to run it. Owain Walbyoff will lead Fremantle Sports, which will focus on unscripted and factual documentaries, along with new digital formats about sport. Walbyoff’s London-based hub will look to team with rightsholders and brands, and strike first look and co-production deals. He…

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Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond & Aislinn Clarke On Using Genre Films As A Means To “Explore Social Issues” — Storyhouse

Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond & Aislinn Clarke On Using Genre Films As A Means To “Explore Social Issues” — Storyhouse

[ad_1] Filmmakers Nia DaCosta, Prano Bailey-Bond and Aislinn Clarke all touched down at Dublin’s second annual screenwriting festival Storyhouse to discuss the appeal that the genre space has to them as writer-directors.  All three women have worked across genre in the last few years, with DaCosta directing and co-writing Candyman with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, Bailey-Bond’s…

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Meghan Markle Details “Rare” and “Scary” Postpartum Health Challenge

Meghan Markle Details “Rare” and “Scary” Postpartum Health Challenge

[ad_1] Meghan Markle’s postpartum journey wasn’t without its challenges. The Duchess of Sussex, who shares Prince Archie, 5 or Princess Lilibet, 3 with Prince Harry, recently revealed that after giving birth to one of her children—though she didn’t specify which—she had to navigate a difficult health scare. While in conversation with friend Whitney Wolfe Herd…

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Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love-45’ With Laetitia Dosch & Charif Ghattas – Qumra

Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love-45’ With Laetitia Dosch & Charif Ghattas – Qumra

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Anas Khalaf and Rana Kazkaz’s Mare Nostrum and The Translator count among the rare fiction works made by Syrian directors tackling the 2011 democracy protests and President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal 14-year campaign to crush them. The husband-and-wife team’s allegorical short film Mare Nostrum (2020) tapped into the resulting Mediterranean Sea migrant crisis as…

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UOB to inject fresh capital of 2 trillion dong into Vietnam unit, build new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City

UOB to inject fresh capital of 2 trillion dong into Vietnam unit, build new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City

[ad_1] [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that it will inject additional fresh capital of two trillion dong (S$104 million) into its Vietnam subsidiary, bringing its total charter capital of the unit to 10 trillion dong. Since 2021, UOB has made three capital injections into UOB Vietnam. Its total charter capital…

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‘Angels In The Asylum’: Production Company Behind Simon Pegg Film Files For Administration

‘Angels In The Asylum’: Production Company Behind Simon Pegg Film Files For Administration

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: The production company that houses Angels In The Asylum, the beleaguered British indie film starring Simon Pegg, has effectively filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. AITA Films Limited intends to appoint law firm Debenhams Ottaway to oversee the administration process. The development follows Angels In The Asylum halting filming halfway through its shoot after…

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Icelandic-Romanian Comedy-Drama Series ‘Hot Stuff’ For Broadcaster SYN Set For Global Launch

Icelandic-Romanian Comedy-Drama Series ‘Hot Stuff’ For Broadcaster SYN Set For Global Launch

[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: An Icelandic-Romanian comedy-drama series is set to launch internationally, as European countries continue to combine to get production rolling. Hot Stuff comes from Reykjavik-based Glassriver and Romania‘s Idea Film and is for Icelandic broadcaster SÝN’s Channel 2 (Stöð 2). Paris-based Oble has taken international distribution rights and will begin shopping the show. The…

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Rich Asian investors opt to unwind holdings amid margin calls

Rich Asian investors opt to unwind holdings amid margin calls

[ad_1] [SINGAPORE] Some wealthy clients at Asia’s top private banks are opting to unwind part of their equity investments instead of topping up collateral after the tumult in global markets triggered a slew of margin calls, according to people familiar with the matter. Multi-millionaire investors from Hong Kong to Singapore at several large European and…

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